Word: punt
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...unaware of the cringes he brought by labeling Plunkett's sightless mother a big factor, and has been blind to failings ever since. Because Miami Coach Don Shula favored Bob Griese, Draftee Theismann stopped off in Canada for three seasons before arriving in Washington eleven years ago as a punt returner. Neither Billy Kilmer nor Sonny Jurgensen quite qualified as athletes anymore, but they were still quarterbacks...
Three possessions later, after sophomore Dylan McCrory forced the Bears’ Rashad Collins to muff a punt and Harvard converted the miscue into a field goal, the Crimson offense got the ball back trailing by 11 and let sophomore running back Clifton Dawson take over...
...halftime, when several likely skill-position starters were lifted to avoid injury on the rain-soaked pitch and the Crimson’s play calling took a decided turn for the conservative, O’Hagan orchestrated five trips to pay dirt against just one drive ended by a punt. Though his throws downfield were hampered by the weather and lacked Fitzpatrick’s velocity, the overwhelming majority of O’Hagan’s attempts were well timed and perfectly placed, dropping directly into his receivers’ hands just beyond the reach of an opposing cornerback...
Brady Keys Jr. has always been a playmaker--on and off the field. In 1964, when he was a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, he ran a punt back 90 yds., a play that's still a team record. In the '70s, as the owner of several franchises, he was an African-American pioneer in the fast-food industry, and his policy of custom-making orders inspired Burger King's famous "Have It Your Way" campaign. Now the former football star is tackling his most difficult challenge yet: failing inner-city schools...
...couldn’t guess that from the progress of the Committee on General Education. The 16 members of the committee have been entrusted with the future heart of Harvard’s liberal arts education, and from the looks of it they want to punt. Unsurprisingly, last Friday a discussion of the full Faculty yielded little consensus on what should replace Harvard’s Core curriculum. More troubling, however, the Faculty seemed daunted by the still-ambiguous nature—even after so many months—of the proposals on the table. The Committee on General Education...